Kevin McCarthy on President Obama: Brackets before budget

House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) says he thinks President Barack Obama spends “more time filling out his March Madness brackets” than writing a budget.

“How can a president not want to balance the budget? How does he forgot what he said? One of his first goals in the first four years was to cut the deficit in half. Now he doesn’t care. He doesn’t even produce a budget,” McCarthy said Tuesday on “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.”

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He continued: “I’ll bet you this. I bet you he spends more time filling out his March Madness brackets than he does writing a budget.”

McCarthy said that there is “no excuse” why Obama is not producing a budget.

“There’s no excuse why he can’t. But think of this. He came to the State of the Union. He laid out to the American public what he wanted to achieve. That was doing a lot of different things financially,” McCarthy said. “How can he even picture about wanting to achieve those if he didn’t first put on paper what you can afford and what you can’t?”